Child of the Northern Spring [Import] [Paperback]

Persia Woolley (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 544 pages
• Publisher: Grafton (1988)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0586074694
• ISBN-13: 978-0586074695
• Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 4.5 x 1.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,615,610 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Guenevere ever!, October 27, 2004

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M. Tucker - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Child of the Northern Spring (Paperback)

This trilogy by Persia Woolley, which includes Child of the Northern Spring, Queen of the Summer Stars, and The Legend in Autumn, is well worth reading. Among the plethora of feminine centric Arthur retellings, I thought this trilogy was second only to The Mists of Avalon, which is the best Arthurian novel I've read, period. Neither a simpering bauble like Marion Zimmer Bradley's queen, nor a bitter shrew, as she is depicted in Rosalind Miles' trilogy, the High Queen in this series is a strong woman, bold, intelligent, compassionate, and well worth the love of two legendary heros. My only complaint with the character is this: Woolley saw fit to make her Guenevere homely, not the great beauty of legend, and Guenevere is supposed to be the fairest of the fair. Otherwise, this trilogy gets my highest recommendation. It is much better than the other Guenevere trilogies out there (by Miles and Newman). If you like this one, you might also enjoy Queen of Camelot by Nancy McKenzie.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is the version of King Arthur I swear by . . ., October 12, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: Child of the Northern Spring (Paperback)

This book, along with the other two in the trilogy (Queen of the Summer Stars and Guinevere: Legend in Autumn), is the best telling of the Arthurian Legend yet. It's got everything: romance, magic, and best of all, believable characters. I love this book and the others. I've read them twice already, and I'm sure that I'll read them several more times. You just can't beat these books!!!!!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book, May 31, 2002

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Hallie R. Moore "bigbluecapeh" (cocoa, fl United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Child of the Northern Spring (Hardcover)

I have read many, many books on King Aurthor and found this one to be FAR, FAR better than any I have ever read. I have never before been captivated by the storie of Gweneuver, and yet I found that once I started reading this book I could not put it down. The book spun a wonderful tail of how it must have been like to grow up a Celtic princes, or simply how it must have been to grow up a Celt. I highly recomend this book to all.